The Cabinet Office has today confirmed that Sharon Barber has
been appointed as co-Chair of the NCAB. Sharon brings a wealth of
experience from her role as Chief Information Officer at Lloyds
Banking Group.
The National Cyber Advisory Board is one of the key ‘whole of
society’ commitments made in the National Cyber Strategy 2022
which launched in December.
The Board will serve as a forum for an inclusive and engaged
national cyber dialogue, bringing together views from across
academia, industry and public/third sectors to inform government
and to mobilise the wider cyber ecosystem.
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and lead Cyber Minister,
, said:
I’m delighted to appoint Sharon Barber as co-chair and look
forward to her bringing her expertise and experience from
industry to the National Cyber Advisory Board, which is a crucial
part of the successful delivery of our National Cyber Strategy.
We are investing £2.6billion in cyber over the next three years
and that funding will underpin our approach to dealing
collaboratively with industry, universities, schools and
individual citizens to work with us to tackle the cyber
challenges ahead.
Newly-appointed NCAB co-Chair Sharon Barber said:
The Government has set out an ambitious strategy – it’s now up to
us to join together, harnessing the rich diversity of the UKs
abilities across academia, government and industry to move into
execution. We will be more successful as a collective.
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